(a)
This Article may be cited as the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.

(b)
The Emergency Management Assistance Compact, hereinafter "Compact",
is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this State with all other states
legally joining therein, in the form substantially as set forth in this
Article. This Compact is made and entered into by and between the party states
which enact this Compact. For the purposes of this Article, the term
"states" means the several states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
the District of Columbia, and all United States territorial possessions and the
term "party states" means the participating member states which enact
and enter into this Compact. (1997-152, s. 1.)